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- Mar 11, 2010 - 8:43 am
- Issue #38 -- Mar. 11, 2010
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"Sanji's Demon," by Richard Parks
I didn't have to ask whom he meant, but it seemed that Daiki, in this one regard, was not going to get his wish. The bushi produced two flea-bitten, scruffy men. Both were bruised and bloody but alive. Two more were not. Daiki kicked the body so that it rolled face up and studied the dead man’s features. "It would seem the bandit has escaped me after all."
"In Memoriam," by Alys SterlingI felt it, or rather Gaumont's body did, and with such force that it took me a moment to throw it off, a sudden desperation not to see what lay beneath that heavy drape of fabric. Yet I watched eagerly as the hands drew back the folds of grey material to reveal a granitic face, human in form, but so frozen that its wrinkles might have been carved from stone.
Audio Fiction Podcast 033
"A Skirt of Many Colors," by Catherine Mintz, from BCS #37
I go further in, to the ghosts. The first ghost is the ghost of the Boots. They are two holes in the wave of stone that half-fills a room of the old house. No telling who felt inside the pair of holes and found they were the shape of the inside of a boot. If you slide your feet into them--first checking that nothing has gotten there first--you can ask the ghost for a wish.
- Mar 9, 2010 - 9:38 am
- The deadline to nominate for the Hugo Awards is this Saturday! So get your nominations in.
Information on what BCS stories are eligible is in this post in the BCS Forums. It also lists what official category each story falls into (Short Story, Novelette, etc).
You can also nominate BCS itself for Best Semipro Zine, if you think we're worthy. John Klima, editor of the Hugo-winning magazine Electric Velocipede, thinks BCS is Hugo-worthy. :)
Thanks very much for your support! - Mar 2, 2010 - 1:32 pm
- A story from BCS has been selected by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer to be reprinted in their new steampunk anthology.
"A Serpent in the Gears" by Margaret Ronald, from BCS #34, will appear in Steampunk Reloaded, which will be released by Tachyon this Oct. Margaret will be sharing these pages with such other great authors such as Jeffrey Ford, Daniel Abraham, Margo Lanagan, and Catherynne M. Valente.
Congratulations, Margaret! - Feb 25, 2010 - 8:28 am
- Issue #37 -- Feb. 25, 2010
Also available in EPUB, PDF and Mobi PRC e-book formats, all downloadable at the above link.
"A Skirt of Many Colors," by Catherine Mintz
I go further in, to the ghosts. The first ghost is the ghost of the Boots. They are two holes in the wave of stone that half-fills a room of the old house. No telling who felt inside the pair of holes and found they were the shape of the inside of a boot. If you slide your feet into them--first checking that nothing has gotten there first--you can ask the ghost for a wish.
"Pale," by Kathryn Allen
There's always a woman. And she plays her part, one way or the other. "The stranger'll come for you," I tell her, trying to tip-toe round the vulgarity. Whether it's The Marshal or The Hired Gun, the innocent's champion gets the woman. He’ll be good to her, but she"ll never forget, never be quite the same when he rides away.
Audio Fiction Podcast 032
"To Slay with a Thousand Kisses," by Rodello Santos, from BCS #36
Her age was impossible to say, for her face was crusted with muck and roots. Her teeth were like kernels of mottled corn. She was naked, her skin textured like stone, gray and gravelly. Wet, bulbous mushrooms grew in the moss around her womanly crevice. Her reek nearly brought me to my knees.
- Feb 22, 2010 - 9:05 am
- The Million Writers Award for online stories, founded by editor Jason Sanford of storySouth online magazine, is open for reader nominations. This is a great award--in 2008, BCS was runner-up for Best New Magazine.
Any story that appeared in BCS during 2009 is eligible--check our Past Issues page to see what issue your favorite BCS story was in. Every reader can nominate one story. To make a nomination, go to this web page.
Nominations close on Feb. 28, so do it this week! Make sure you follow the nomination format they list at the top of that page, or your nomination won't count.
Thanks very much for your consideration!